Threats? We have people murdering their parents. How about violent actions.
*Still a good article worth the read.
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There are probably thousands of times more threats than actions.
The point is that the MAGA movement is already extremely violent. Their threats are being carried out. The issue is bigger than idle “threats”. The actions of these domestic terrorists have already warped life in America.
This isn't a contest of what's worse. The point of the article is that the threats are making it so that people who are critical to stopping Trumpism afraid to the their jobs, meaning they in a lot of cases they don't do their jobs. The acts of violence aren't going to kill enough people to cripple the left, but the threats might actually terrorize enough people into standing idly by while the fascists take over.
Don't use one problem as an excuse to write off a related problem because it's "worse".
Especially when a relative few people being killed isn't actually worse than a fascist takeover.
(Yeah, I said it: people dying are acceptable losses if the alternative is fascism.)
Which is definitely not a good thing either way.
MAGA is the largest terrorist threat this country has faced since the 1860s
Of course given it’s the current NYT a follow up article noting how this is bad for President Biden will surely follow.
I mean emboldened fascist ideology normalizing violence to achieve political ends is bad but Biden is old so they’re basically the same threat.
I see you didn't read the article.
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear to achieve political or ideological aims.
Good. Fucking. Point.
“You keep speaking, and I’ll stand guard.” We need more of that. Much more.
That part was beautiful.
Yeah, that’s an A+ officer
That’s an American. A real American.
Decent people should do everything in their power to marginalize MAGAts.
That's a funny way of saying shoot them
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Amid the constant drumbeat of sensational news stories — the scandals, the legal rulings, the wild political gambits — it’s sometimes easy to overlook the deeper trends that are shaping American life.
Late last month, I listened to a fascinating NPR interview with the journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman regarding their new book, “Find Me the Votes,” about Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Willis received an assassination threat so specific that one evening she had to leave her office incognito while a body double wearing a bulletproof vest courageously pretended to be her and offered a target for any possible incoming fire.
For those unfamiliar, swatting is a terrifying act of intimidation in which someone calls law enforcement and falsely claims a violent crime is in process at the target’s address.
In my own Tennessee community, doctors and nurses who advocated wearing masks in schools were targets of screaming, threatening right-wing activists, who told one man, “We know who you are” and “We will find you.”
In the summer of 2021, I received a quite direct threat after I’d written a series of pieces opposing bans on teaching critical race theory in public schools.
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That's called PATRIOTISM! Unless LIBRULS do something similar like Protesting in which case THAT'S Terrorism!
Odd to me that anyone could miss the sarcasm.